Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Texas panhandle - 3 miles into New Mexico(?)
Date: Jan 03, 2004 @ 03:06
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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From: "kontikipaul" <contikipaul@...>
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Texas panhandle - 3 miles into New Mexico(?)
> New Mexico has zero chance. Texas is one of two states who have the
> right to leave the union at any time and as someone from the smallest
> state in the union who may be made even smaller by Connecticut the
> politicians here are threatening enough lawsuits to bog down a shift
> for years. Basically, I'm not a lawyer by the way, there is
> something in the law called 'tone and content'. What this means is
> if something has become a given legal fact and new information crops
> up that it might not be so, the prepondance of legality is on the
> side of the people/group/entity that will suffer because of the new
> information. Its the legalize of the old saying "possesion is 9/10's
> of the law". If your going to go back to the 1800's just to get
> three miles of border area just because nobody realized the mistake
> in 150 years you've far exceeded your right to contest the original
> fact.
>
> Also as Lowell points out its been a legal fact that the border was
> drawn up as the survey was surveyed and not as it should have been
> surveyed.
>
> The Rhode Island/Connecticut issue will be solved the same way.
> The state of Connecticut is being dragged into this and realistically
> wishes the town would just shut up. The town in CT wants the
> property tax and thats about 15k or so a year.
>
> There's a number of houses' on the Rhode Island/Massachusetts
> border that it crosses' right down the middle. One guy even has to
> register his car in Mass. (garage is on the Mass side), have an
> address in RI (post office assigned the zip code to the house as in
> RI), kids choose to go to school either state. Thats the way it
> should be.
>
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